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{{quote|'''Mr. Kornada:''' Did an A.I. come in here? Where is it?
'''Secretary:''' ''She'' is in the lab, being tested. And her name is Florence Ambrose.
'''Mr. Kornada:''' It is a ''product'', not a person. It doesn't have a name.
'''Secretary:''' (thinking) ''When they bring in doughnuts, they have names.''
|''[[Freefall]]''}}
Authors and characters in [[Speculative Fiction]] have oft pondered whether robots, AI's, clones, and other [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|human-like entities]] can become sapient, and if so, if they also carry a [[Our Souls Are Different|soul]]. [[Do Androids Dream?]]
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== Live-Action TV ==
* In ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* Both versions of ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' adapted "I, Robot" (based on thee [[Adam Link]] story by Eando Binder, not [[I, Robot (literature)||the book]] by [[Isaac Asimov]]). Each
** For bonus points, {{spoiler|in the remake he sacrificed himself saving the prosecuting attorney who had argued against his sapience. In the original, he's destroyed while saving a little girl he'd accidentally injured earlier in the episode.}}
* The ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "Measure of a Man" put Data on trial to determine whether he was a sentient being with rights as a Federation citizen, or merely a machine and thus Federation property.
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